From: Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T23:52:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on how to source a file with variables in it.

Oscar Gon wrote:
> Thanks, I took a look at the yaml page but I'm not sure how I would use 
> that in ruby. I understand the syntax that's used in YAML (I think) but 
> I'd still be left wondering how to read that into all/any of the ruby 
> scripts I need.

vars.yml

url: http://www.example.com/
contact:
  first: Joe
  last: Smith


Then

require 'yaml'

data = YAML::load_file( "vars.yml" )

puts "#{ data['contact']['first'] } from #{ data['url'] }"

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